[pstricks] pstricks-add

[Herbert Voss]

Alan Ristow wrote:

> The reason I dislike having psgraph wrap a pspicture environment is that
> it makes controlling the boundaries of the pspicture environment
> difficult. Using psgraph as-is in a figure environment results in a
> figure caption that is far too close to the graph, for example. I
> regularly add additional space around my charts for various reasons, but
> psgraph makes that difficult. I would like to be able to say, for
> example:
> 
> 	\begin{pspicture}(-30pt,12)(-36pt,7)
> 		\begin{psgraph}(0,12)(0,7)
> 			...
> 
> But with psgraph as written I have no choice but to have:
> 
> 	\begin{pspicture}(0,12)(0,7)

this is no real limitation, because you can nest the
pspicture environment, see example.


> Next issue. The xAxesLabel and yAxesLabel keys don't seem to work with
> certain macros. For example,
> 
> 	\usepackage{amsmath}
> 	\newcommand*{\Wp}{\ensuremath{W_\text{p}}}
> 		...
> 	\psset{xAxesLabel=Something (\Wp)}
> 
> gives me an "undefined control sequence" error, whereas
> 
> 	\newcommand*{\USD}{\$}
> 	\psset{xAxesLabel=Something (\USD)}


will have a look at this.

> Finally, a minor issue that might not even be worth addressing: The word
> "axes" is plural, with "axis" as its singular. Thus, your new \psaxes

sure ... I should take a second and think about the vocabulary
before writing ...

Herbert




\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents*}{demo1.dat}
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\end{filecontents*}

\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-plot}
\usepackage{pstricks-add}
\usepackage{pst-key}
\usepackage[margin=1.75cm]{geometry}
\pagestyle{empty}
\parindent=0pt

\begin{document}

\enlargethispage{1cm}

\readdata{\data}{demo1.dat}
\pstScalePoints(1,0.000001){}{}
\begin{center}
\psframebox[linecolor=red,linestyle=dashed]{%
\psgraph%
    [axesstyle=frame, ticklines=all,ylabelFactor=$\cdot 10^6$,%
     Dx=5, Dy= 100](-1,25)(0,750){10cm}{8cm}         % parameters
    \listplot[linecolor=red, linewidth=2pt, showpoints=true]{\data}
\endpsgraph
}

\vspace{1cm}
\psframebox[linecolor=red,linestyle=dashed]{%
\begin{pspicture}(-1,-1)(0.2,8.5)% this seems to be a bug !!!!!
\psgraph%
    [axesstyle=frame, ticklines=all,ylabelFactor=$\cdot 10^6$,%
     Dx=5, Dy= 100](-1,25)(0,750){10cm}{8cm}         % parameters
    \listplot[linecolor=red, linewidth=2pt, showpoints=true]{\data}
\endpsgraph
\end{pspicture}
}

\end{center}

\end{document}




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